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National Ecological Observatory Network
• Introductions – Rissler • NEON Science Overview – Loescher • Infrastructure review - Thompson • Operations/Decommission – Bolyard • Open Discussion
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AGENDA
• NEON Introductions – Erik Rissler: Permitting and Safety Coordinator – Jody Bolyard: Director, Permitting and Central
Operations – Hank Loescher: Assistant Director,
Biometeorology – David Tazik: Director, Science – Chris Thompson: Facilities and Civil
Construction
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Design Considerations
• Minimize footprint • Reduce impact to science • Ensure environmental protection • Infrastructure required
– Power – Communications – Access
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SCIENCE OVERVIEW
Dr. Hank Loescher
(a brief) Introduction to NEON
Hank Loescher
Assistant Director -‐ NEON Ins2tute for Alpine and Arc2c Research,
University of Colorado
1 August 11,2012 Healy Community, Healy, Alaska
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• Design history • How did we get here?, Requirements framework • Scien2fic Crea2vely verses Baseline Infrastructure
• Scien2fic scope and design • Sub-‐system designs, FSU, FIU, AOP, AQU, LUAP
TALK OUTLINE
NEON DESIGN
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1. Biodiversity
2. Biogeochemical cycles
3. Climate change
4. Ecohydrology
5. Infectious disease
6. Invasive species
7. Land use NRC (National Research Council). 2001. Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences. Washington DC: National Academies Press.
NRC (National Research Council). 2003. NEON: Addressing the Nation's Environmental Challenges. Washington DC: National Academies Press.
Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences
NEON’s Scientific Approach
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The goal of NEON is to enable understanding and forecas0ng of the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive
species on con0nental-‐scale ecology by providing infrastructure to support research, educa2on and environmental management in
these areas.
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1*2%0#2'(34'5#'0,(Understanding and forecasting the distribution of biological invasions and their impacts on ecological processes and ecosystem services.
6#7+'75)'$#0&89,(Understanding and predicting the impacts of human activities on the Earth’s major biogeochemical cycles.
6#7.#2'80#&9,(Understanding the regulation of biological diversity and its functional consequences for ecosystems.
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1*;'5<0(=#0'%0'0,(Understanding and predicting the ecological and evolutionary aspects of infectious diseases and of the interactions among pathogens, hosts/receptors, and ecosystems.
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NEON GOALS
• Information infrastructure: Consistent, continental, long-term, multi-scaled data-sets and data products that serve as a context for research and education.
• Physical Infrastructure: A research platform for investigator-initiated sensors, observations, and experiments providing physical infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, human resources, and expertise, and program management and coordination.
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The overarching goal of NEON is to enable understanding and forecasting of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental-scale
ecology by providing infrastructure to support research in these areas.
A National Observatory: 20 Eco-climatic Domains
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Mapping the Questions to Specific Sites
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How will NEON observe?
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NEON Deployment
• Headquarters (incl. CI, labs, etc.) - Boulder • 20 Domains (labs and other facilities)
• 20 Core sites (wildland) • 40 Relocatable sites (land-use sites)
• 10 Mobile laboratories (AK, HI, CONUS+PR)
• Human-based observations • 3 Airborne Observation Platforms • Land Use Analysis Package • STREON Experiment
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(green = taskable)
NEON Science Facilities (subsystems) (alphabet soup)
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FSU Fundamental Sen2nel Unit Human Obs. Bioarchive
FIU Fundamental Instrument Unit
Automated Instrumenta2on
AOP Airborne Observa2on Package
AircraR Remote Sensing
AQU Aqua2c/STREON Human Obs/automated
instrumenta2on
LUAP Land Use Analysis Package Satellite Remote Sensing +
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Fundamental Sentinel Unit
• Biodiversity • Population Dynamics • Productivity • Phenology • Infectious Disease • Biogeochemistry • Microbial Function and Diversity • Ecohydrology
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Sentinel Organisms (FSU)
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Microbes
Mosquitoes
Beetles
Small Mammals
Birds
Fish
Aquatic Invertebrates
Plants
Genera2on Time
Fundamental Instrument Unit
FIU working group, NEON HQ 13
Fundamental Instrument Unit
• Physical and chemical climate forcing (incl wet dep, AOD)
• Micrometeorological scalars and fluxes
• CO2, δC13, H2O, δO18, DH, CH4, O3, NOy
• Soil Array • Over 2000 measurements per
core site at frequencies of • Daily, and ~0.1 to 20 Hz • Generating > 800 Tb y-1 or
raw data, and more at higher level data products
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Mobile Deployment Platform
• Mobile (formally Continental Toolbox and the Rapid Deployment System) • Campaign based measurements • < 1 year • Observational • Cal/Val support
Mobile Platforms, (10) permanent for the life of NEON, ~ 0.5 per Domain
• (1) Truck, (1) mobile, trailer-able Tower, (1) mobile, trailer-able Lab,
• Core suite of instrumentation (Basic micromet, EC package)
• Independent power and internet communications (housekeeping data minimum)
Applied Modules, (various #’s) to be deployed according to observatory needs, mix and match
• Micrometeorology • Atmospheric Chemistry • Ecohydrology
• Organismal Ecology • Education and Outreach • NEON training
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Mapping Ecosystems from the Air
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Airborne Remote Sensing (AOP)
• Spectroscopy – Vegetation biochemical &
biophysical properties – Cover type & fraction
• LiDAR altimetry – Vegetation Structure – Sub-canopy topography – biomass
• High resolution imagery – Land use & land cover
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AOP Imaging Spectrometer
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Airborne Remote Sensing (AOP)
Spatial Scaling Strategy
LUAP
AOP
FIU
Ecological Forecast models
FSU+ AQS
Mobile Labs
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Supporting Facilities
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• Chemical analysis resources • Isotopic analysis resources • Genetic analysis resources • Disease facility • BioArchive collections
• HQ - Boulder • Civil Construction (FCC) • Permitting (EHS) • CyberInfrastructure (CI) • Engineering labs (ENG) • Calibration/Validation Laboratory (CAL/VAL) • Advanced Technology labs
NEON Data Track to Four Major Design Elements
• Measurement Traceability • Data Product Algorithms
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• Scientific Requirements • Procedures and Protocols
NEON Near Death Experience
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• Late 90’s – concept of standardized ecological observatory • 2000-2005 – community workshops, establish boundary
conditions. Shopping list/Christmas tree approach (diag). • (~2005) NSF began to push in key directions. Replaced mgt. • 2006 … Integrated Science and Education Plan (ISEP). • 2007 … PDR1: NEON needs further D&D, Mgt. • 2008 … new D&D phase: flowdown & deliverables, site
design contract underway, project office ramp-up (6-50 staff). • 2009 … PDR/FDR, (+65 staff), successfully completed FDR • 2010… Prototyping and business operations (+135 staff) • 2011 late… Began construction (+190 staff)
Research / Research Activities MREFC - Construction Operations
2006 2011 2017 2012
Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Request for information (public announcement)
• Oct 2006 • 2008-2010 meetings took pace in
Fairbanks and Anchorage • NSF run EA NEPA • Rigorous review cycle • NEON had limited resources for
community engagement
Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Key Ecological Theme is Ecohydrology • Sites focus on permafrost dynamics and the impact of permafrost thawing on ecosystem processes and their feed back mechanisms, sites spanning;
Permafrost – Discontinuous Permafrost - Permafrost free Temperature - Precipitation – Fire
• Spatially distributed sites will capture important trends in permafrost thaw expected over the next several decades • All these sites represent ecosystems that extend to large regional landscapes far into the interior of the Alaska and the continent
Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Fundamental Instrument Unit
FIU working group, NEON HQ 31
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Site design-plume dispersion
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Site design - Healy
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Airshed: 335°
Airshed: 190°
Soil array
Site design - Healy
Why/How did we design Alaska sites?
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Science issues • Avoidance or the road and dust
it generates • Adequate fetch • Optimizing the spatial coverage
(tower/soils) • ‘flat area’ and no edge effects
Operating issues • Optimizing construction limits • Proximity to power, access,
communications • Permitting
Benefits
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• A crucial site for enabling Alaskans and scientists to study and forecast local ecosystem changes
• Critical to informing Alaskans how to mitigate for future change.
• Anchors our understanding • Provides important data to scale to region-
to-high arctic comparisons • Local climate information
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The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON Inc.
www.neoninc.org Hank Loescher Jeff Taylor Ed Ayres Hongyan Luo Michael San Clements Stefan Metzger Josh Roberti Maheteme Gebremedhin Natchaya Durden Ankur Desai
Assistant Director Atmospheric Physicist
Soil Ecologist Micrometeorologist
Biogeochemist Spatial Scaling
Applied Meteorologist Ecosystem Ecologist
Micrometeorologist FIU WG Chair
THANK YOU !!
FACILITIES AND CIVIL CONSTRUCTION
Christian Thompson, P.E.
• Survey and Geotechnical Analysis
• Pre-Vegetation Survey • Design Documents • Construction
Facilities and Civil Construction (FCC)
Design Documents
Design Documents
Domain 19 - Healy
• Tower • Instrument Hut • Electrical/Communications • Boardwalk • Soil Arrays
Infrastructure
About the Tower
• 26’ Self Support • 6 ½’ x 6 ½’ Footprint • Internal Ships Ladder • Security Gate
Tower
About the IH
• 8’ x 20’ x 9’ (w, l, h) • Climate Controlled • Keypad Lock
Instrument Hut
About the AP
• Transformer • Manual Transfer
Switch • Meter • Communications
Pedestal
Auxiliary Portal
About the Elec/Comms
• Conduits On-Ground • Fiberglass Unistrut
Support
Electrical/Communication
About the Boardwalk
• “Tundra Mat” • On-Ground • 40” wide
Boardwalk
About the Soil Arrays
• 5 Individual Plots • Device Posts at each
Plot
Soil Arrays
• Approximately 6 months • Licensed Contractor • NEON On-Site Supervisor • Staging/Parking Area • Strict Construction Limits • 2 to 4 vehicles • 6 to 10 people • Construction Equipment • Delivery Trucks
– IH – Tower – Materials
• Port-a-Jon
Construction – What to Expect
TRANSITION TO OPERATIONS
Jody Bolyard
• Identify DNR design requirements – This week • Obtain Community input – This week • Complete geotech characterization – 2-3 weeks • Process authorization with DNR – 1 month • Formal community comment – 2 months • Final design available – 3 months • Materials Arrive – 5-6 months • Contractor Mobilize – 5-6 months (Feb/Mar 2013)
Plan to Construction
• Construction duration – 6 months • Engineering Outfit Site
– Team of 4 people for 2 months • System Validation
– Team of 4 people for 2 months • Acceptance into Operations • Domain Operations 2015 • Operates for 7-10 years
Transition to Operations
• Support facilities in Fairbanks – Lab – Sample storage – Office
• Staffing – 1 Manager Field Operations – 5-8 Technicians – Seasonal hires for sampling support
• Scope of Work – Sensor Maintenance – Site Maintenance – Sample Collection
• Staff size – 2 persons, 2-3 days every other week instrument maintenance – Organismal sampling 30-50 plots in summer season – Samples include some soil plant and animal materials – Airborne activities once per year during peak greenness – Maximum 20 people for seasonal sampling campaign
What to expect in Operations
• Remove all sensors • Tower removed and reused • Instrument Hut removed and reused • Boardwalk removed • Power removed to portal, remove wiring where
buried • Local restoration and replanting where needed
Decommission the Site